You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, I said. it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to ca...
The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been...
If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal
Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, he told them. Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.
Just think. We’re whizzing through the universe.
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials - I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered - it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else....
What could she possibly have done that was so heinous as to earn her a lifetime of self-mortification? No one short of a tyrant deserved such unremitting agony. I cried there with her, for her, for Ev...
Palmira. She’s like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time.
She was a desperate woman with frailties just like her, temptations just like her, a woman who had needs, a woman who loved almost to the point of there being no more her anymore, a woman who probably...
I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.
To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea.
A moon of startling brightness rose over the rooftops, lifted on a divine, invisible thread...
Look and look and don’t ever forget. Now, close your eyes. Here, give me your hand. And just feel. Can you feel the Earth move?
No matter where life takes you,’ she said, ‘the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find the goodness in it.
If a person loves something above all else, if he values the work of his heart and hands, then he should naturally, without hesitation, pour into it his whole soul, undivided and pure. Great art deman...
Put herself back together again and again. She would drink the forest liquids and drench herself in possibility.
Which one is really my child? The one I brought forth with my own groans who has no liking for the thing I love most in all the world, or the stranger’s child whom fate placed in my life, the one who...
At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt—all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for...
Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.
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